* Motivation for warfare:
Religious protect god, root out evil
Financial gain control of resources
Territorial gain land, or prevent others attack
Patriotic for the good of our nation or ruler


French and Indian War 1754 - 1763
1749 King George II land grant to Ohio Co
1744 Treaty of Logstown with Iroquois League allows fort on Ohio
1749 June
Governor of New France gets complaints about English fur trappers
December 1749 Governor of New France orders

Line of Forts/Trading Post built
July 1752 Marquis Duquesne arrives in Quebec Takes over as Governor
2,000 regular French troops
1752
Christopher Gist (Eng) gets treaty worked out between Ohio and Virginia companies
Treaty gives all land deeds to Ohio Valley to English
Lord Halifax (Parliament) ask for declaration of war
1753 Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia gets authority to order French to remove from Ohio
George Washington
surveying
, (1748)
Offers to take message for Governor Dinwiddie

Promoted to Captain
Maps good location for a fort

Jan 1753 House of Burgesses votes to fund fort and Militia to Man
G.W. promoted to Lt. Col. 2nd in command of Va. Militia
Washington orders attack on French fort building party
Fort Necessity
Washington sign surrender 7/4/1753
Admits he is assassin

Document is the start of 7 Year War
Great War of Empire
The French and Indian War
SitRep = Situation Report
New France
Population = 55,000
Length of colony fort Louisburg Nova Scotia to New Orleans
Three major towns Quebec, Montreal, New orleans
One Governor
Small standing army (well trained)
One Religion
One colony


British Colonies of America
Population = 1,000,000
East Coast Maine to Georgia
Each Colony has major port and town
13 different Governors and legislatures - No overall command except England
Many different religions (several Pacifist)
Thirteen different Colonies

1754 The British Act no more iron forges allowed in colonies
July 10, 1754
Albany Plan of Union *Final Exam
Colonial governments send representatives to Albany New York
7 colonies attend
Iroquois agree to remain friendly
1755
General Braddock arrives in Virginia with English army of 10,000 men
George Washington asks to be an advisor/observer to learn
British Plan (4 part plan)

        1. Stop French expansion
        2. Capture French frontier forts (Duquesne/Niagara)
        3. Build British forts on Major rivers/lakes
        4. Control Water ways to New France (Nova Scotia)


Battle of the Wilderness
Braddock + 2500 will leave Va. and capture Fort Duquesne
*
During retreat all of Braddock’s papers captured (French have Plans)
Washington put in charge of all Virginia Militia and protect frontier
1758 resigns command and get elected to House of Burgesses
River Routes
William Johnson commands New England Militia and Mohawks
Builds Fort Edward (Fort William Henry)
April 10, 1756 Colonial Council of Pennsylvania passes “Scalp Bounty”
French get new commander
May 11,1756 Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, Gozon de St. Véran
December 1756 William Pitt – British Secretary of State for Southern Department
In charge of Parliament in England (war leadership)

Win America first then win rest of the world, piece by piece.”
Pitt spends money puts more men, gun and ships into action then before
The Militia Act of 1757
1758 French Fort of Louisbourg Captured by British
July 27th, General Amherst took possession of the town
August 1758 Gen. John Forbes for British attack Fort Duquesne
Colonel Bouquet commander “The Black Watch Regiment” Scottish Highlanders
Pyrrhic victory
, French win but victory cost too much
October 1758
Treaty of Easton – English promise “No white settlement west of Ft. Pitt”
British build frontier forts Part 3
William Johnson's troops capture Fort Niagara
General Amherst attacks the forts at Carillon (Ticonderoga) and Crown Point
1759, General James Wolfe, was in command of the largest British naval force ever
Quebec itself, was a natural fortress
Lower Town, homes, warehouses, and docks, lays along riverside, unfortified
Upper Town atop the bluffs, fortified

Montcalm would not have to fight to win, by simply holding on, avoiding an all out fight until winter drove the invaders away or froze in place.
Wolfe must make Montcalm come out and fight
September 13, 1759 2A.M. Battle of The Plains of Abraham
European battle will win frontier war
September 17, 1759 Quebec capitulates

All French citizens who take oath of allegiance to England can keep their land
1760 King George III and Parliament begins to enforce the Acts of Navigation
May 3, 1760 Amherst launches drive to take Montreal, the last French stronghold
British flag is raised over Detroit, signaling the end of the French and Indian War
January 2, 1762, Spain joins the war on the French side on
Britain defeats Spain with naval power alone.
France knows war is almost over and gives Spain

Treaty of San Ildefonso France give Spain
all lands west of the Mississippi
Isle of New Orleans
1763
Treaty of Paris ends war (10 February 1763)
labeled all Indians "subjects" of the British crown
established the settlements of eastern North America as British colonies
BRITAIN'S ACQUISITIONS UNDER THE TERMS OF THE PEACE OF PARIS 1763
In America:

Canada
Nova Scotia
Cape Breton and adjoining islands
The right to navigate the Mississippi
In the West Indies:
Grenada
St Vincent
Dominica
Tobago
From Spain:
Florida
In Africa:
Retained Senegal
In India:
Retained the East India Company's conquests
In Europe:
Minorca
Fortifications of Dunkirk were demolished
FRENCH RETENSIONS
In America:

The island of St Pierre
The island of Miquelon
Fishing rights off Newfoundland
In the West Indies:
The port of Havana
Guadeloupe and Martinique
England demands and gets from France all Canada and all Lands east of the Mississippi
From Spain they get Florida
France gives Spain all land west of the Mississippi (Indians control this just legal claim)
1762
Lord Jeffery Amherst takes over major French frontier forts and Indian relations: (this is General Amherst he had been knighted)
refuses to continue French custom of
gifts of ammo to Indians
raises prices on English trade goods (no competition)
Indian allies of French are
conquered people
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Treaty of Paris, large tracts of Algonquian Indian land to Britain
Born around 1720 in northern Ohio
Age of 35 he became chief of the ottawa

War Chief of the Ottawa, calls a Grand Council, this is the first pan-Indian (one leader) military movement
Delaware medicine man “Neolin”
says “Indians only win if they use the old ways reject white mans’ ways”
Plan - attack and drive English from all old French cities/forts before too numerous
Attacks are successful and coordinated

Under Chief Pontiac, warriors captured most of the trans-Allegheny forts, except Fort Pitt, and Fort Detroit (1763)
Ohio and Mississippi rivers
Fort Detroit
Fort Niagra
Fort Pitt

Amherst declares total warfare
Also plans to spread/use biological warfare spread smallpox
Scraps plan but Simon Ecuyer tries it at fort pit
Most likley it did not work because indiand that accept gift still alive later
Amhearst worried that to spread it to indian, colonist would also get it
August 6, 1763, British forces, under Colonel Henry Bouquet (Scottish Highlanders)
destroyed Delaware and Shawnee forces at Battle of Bushy Run
Destroyed Deleware and Shawnee forces at Battle of Bushy run
Makes safe for colonial settlement
Pontiac was forced to capitulate on October 31, 1763
England's King George III's
Proclamation of 1763 (October 7, 1763)
The Plan of 1764
Set up an imperial fur trading system (king profit)
Frontier forts intended to protect
The Indians
Indian Land
Treaty rights
This fails because of land lust
The Proclamation of 1763 marked boundaries October 7, 1763